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H. nnith, I YN r FAA7I' 11ER oal A EIN4.S.NA I,DLEs, and TI:UNKS. -1 4 V;A:TIg'"*IM94. William N .-O rover. % wsET,AT LAW. St Lar VlA•nrrl. rraetl,:a , il k c ' sc 4 ;7( .l :•:: : :. r4 / 1 11 ( 4 it ne r -C r" . Iron, ahrt aad t e l - 1471....c h', 7"rv it n ‘ lo h ln f' p v t s t r 0FF1T0.4 , 6 CheAsaut Strvrt. Lou , ,, Member V.. Francis B. Davison, M. D.; -St'fl.l. larfleLiCt Utp , I67LNE and S Ent. rn Al CAI r ••.• and •1n inn. rd SwituPaanns einlr,tv. OFFICE in th. 4.% W. )1011. EN. Al.:Satr..Ner., corsi!'t.oppoar nth. narove. Novennaer C. Winkler, N ale Itiernmo. St,el. Ps- ci,pe,:te E. e.e 0 L Pratt's-oftee. • Neer Sillford, Noe. te, • t. H, llogers, .QT/1.1. coutitm.s the it A...`it:1 , 1.(71 - 1(F, u'a des:, irtton. of WAIANS. N.1.1.:1(; the oe<l si))ie of Workmanship nod ofthetew materiwk. kt I he well 1..1 , 0•11 eaod,a fete rob east of eearlee Roth, In )(outflow. where . will De happy to rewire the al% of tit who w}lll an lo leo , . llontrooo. Septetrawr H. H. Bennett • 13(10K ISINDER., Suognehar.k..2 evattr. resprd ly I.torms the peopte nt k•tmottehamiaaud trlghb•oriraknuktli•-• •••,• osonosoll so birs.l Pt.riodirk•ls sord Brk% and Itelk4r n;k: ko. TW. FL/Mt ikveive Teri inia , Donk% de. !.r_ll. • • rorr,t, • !,' L OPt. !r""3' -sr William B. Simpson, TCH REPAIRER, Larthz s*:riced frt . the PM n a Serra 11 la the MR./ etlßfal workmen. lip rocedsoct that he can tht Moat dtßicultjuto ca alwat __crow*. All work sarrant.l to tati:Fa.. - tion. Jetretry reralred r.eatty and cwrea:ccatt• terms. •h- h•L'it bard 4: Wel.terl..e. , S,inre.cunwrof acJ Tom. "tre , a, bel :oft `, , eatle - a Mae:. )1 . I..swnrs ha, wr.rkrd forme r,potne time: 3.1 Ina ITC , tat: .1 hlra si• a 4,1141:11 and AIM:1131 Irv4nltn, compete:li 1.. La as le:dare In tatsnoltry, and arDril, col.tdrace. T.,wamda,.lnr.e. to. ; A. Of au ins ux. mote ro Wra. roro'L E. W. PCT.!. E. J. Moutorr,e, E. 0 41-41, it. cinco`,:•. Tow, ; L. Si-oe, r". L. M=MMi Wm. W. Smith & Co.. I'ARINET ANl)(ll.idit 'MA Xi trer". mr•tatllr on hard *lllr - in& C. VriN :11 a. or fT.rt1.41,1 at 41, - ; nottoik. Shcr , a=d Ware It nordo foit of 111111Strret. ' ==el2MMil Hayden Brothers, ArfiCTV , ALE LiEd rntt . 6 T 'COT] N" e et, t. ), S. Watches ;riltissseT r tsp;tei a NT fortJahtstg Prim wEti.r.V I=IIMIMI Boyd & , Web _ .ster , 1 i EM.RAS th Strrm s! ., ,,Lrit, D., r•Nre: r, "1 si„...t Tr., ' .1 7 W.!: 14.5.1rintlem - F•a•h; Nazi Dcurs, A . :e..1 , , , v , Minds, Lath, •,. L•317,!.t.:. and a:lti.nds re1i7.11411:014t•r1a1... - I'm NI:op south' A....4'i Hotel, and , earpenter Shop Lear Ilethod:as. Church. Dr. 13. Z. Blalock. PAND PUT:ODA Mi. permar•ent`y 1. at IS ontrtese, SiNcehr.mla cow:Tr.-Pa. OFFCCt ov, Wilson sat'a Starr. Liaieltaga at SeArlea vtri. 31,tx,e,Ilarch, la, 158. " Di. Wm. L. Richardson < Avoriorea r reetfilny trLdrr prar-0i...1 ..'r,rl to I r y th: NotAttots Mostrtoo sod :u 54e.141y. Uhrl( otrt Alcl 4.ODGINtI; a: ti. 3!*. #?. F: Wiim~4 • E.4.IICATL - of tie Atorgthie snd 11,1,74thi, Ca'.eges of C lkilidae. 4 now perraameutlf imaeC!'n (;:rst Den & Pa_ 0 • errser of Mathe mud lambett oti....iLe the M. E. t I,steh. • ' :fay Pt . D 11. Smith; t '- St - fl6r.crs DENT.It‘T *a ft , 7:taatt Itrptle. - 1;1=1% r u;il.:l. 4 frlt. ''" X t r l. _,." l 7 P I lit F-eru in lirtrt J ••• • teeth. C. D. Virgil, YIESIDENT DENTIT. MONTROSE, P.A. Of T sul4Fraalri o i ,t n „ IL All jobs,:x . arratt,!. • * - I^-rnumr. tanif . , . Dr. A. Gifford, - ... - . Cr.GEnN DE N TIST . °Ere •elxl3 Dr. Dlrn,i. "or, Wl:.c.n). 1 Stns. Potlitular talmt{on trill be given to Uueeting Terall r. 1...1.:4 or Silver plate—al. CU anew pLIA. ..ill onth.tkovs warrant d. taxtrae. Sept.& 15:43,41 . - • - B. Thayer; DITYr!CIAN AND EraftEON, Pa. Otter In the larane. atom "2.3.13 A. ilushiieil, 11 ORS ET couxsa toit AT 4LAW. lir,. 0, - er s, WeaTs Drag St.zrt,..srwacia.o.cx4 Dwerr, h.-1171 Feeler & itoadaid. rILEA.LERS Ii lOW'S .!cl SHOE..., Leather and Finihnge, I JP ]fat . 4.. ern door below &ark's iloteL 31ohtexe, • z....eirawas.C. 5. frOt.r,ln • William IL Jessup, • 770P.NET AT LAW CNOTAILT rCLLIr. Otsce o. rub 4 Marrsam. Ps. Bentley it Fitch, , TT .)!:NET; :PI:NETS L. 4.7". ANLY 1/07:17 I.A :CD AGENTS,— tfl,f 'req. of tbs Court If oSse. Al oatrw, M. tt-C1211,4T 1, ....mai. Albert Chamberlin, 77. 1 E4NEV AT LAW. ANI) JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.— L L. P.A 4k -Co.'s Stow, Ilutrmos. A. Wm. B Stssip, F:Y AT LAW AND CONSItsSIONER. OF FPFED:‘, the of New' York, will sitewo to all I.4.lnems eutri.led ryiptiat.l tbd CddttF. 092 °mt.- • oY lA= .k.soxp, Abel Turret', jII:4LE:F: L' DRUGS, .141-I , IVINEF. C111:111CALS. Pa hardware, .Itopea r! , ;74,lns,Spec...ac,S. Mn Trumek Surecallsoiramtvta. stelonery, rt - .hoes, :COWL, &C. F. B. Chandler, tryp ER IN 11 GOODN', Ready ILA* Mile., Guerin .41 m‘diunery. etc., rubbe Aver.nle, Sloarkum Pa. . Post Brothers, N.DET-cooDs, G..trim, Cm:fiery. ITard.ln / I . 4 r.etr;twarrofTurnytte Elsa *rat Pc4Lir f ee • J. Lyons ft Son., tl GaVn .. .liftst r, Crockery. ii4.lll:lLt ) b a riaine:s. Valk A vi...e. "'l . l sTrlox, W. / 1171 Ll,l. 7 •. Bead & Co., - • , F.A.LERS TN DMY GOODS. Deep, Medicine*. relets, Ilam-otere, erecter/. leen. Wslth".• ?cermet - A &e. Ulna; Mimeses". P. W. Gm= id* P riap, William & William H. Jessup, II'oRNETS AT LAW. 31Frrnoor, rractlree In St wine I.euqiirseima I%).,rac. W70m6.0 and Levan. counties, Rockwell Winton -31f-Yt:rit'r."REßs D., - .2:'.47:4=191- -..Ns it ras!•-saf s ar.assral • v. sr. tIOTOS. • - Baldwin lc Allen, neat Dealers la /lout Salt. Pork, Flab. 11 , Gral.n. Feed. Ouldirs, paw It• .tbe -} :,:,;: 4 l •Ei , at. Cobb it Rogera, rj - E AL,EILS IN GROCERIM, ko_..at the atom iecoht:y Waited Roma. hloatmee, Pa. +tooted a BUTCJILit t.IIOP to the loath, ot of r•givit more. cornea of litaimead ThrepUto htroote. Yeaiyost N00.23.taht...tt - AN -ACROSTIC; C ft* saa MT orrivz h graad sad SUPERB , EZALITEONG Hal" cr. cont.!, .ad des sac, come la ALL4,.4 Rwaysn,tiess the dl.x.;curarst-,T.ILR, VT tay Rama. widen peas will oat pawl% LOCATION is rL/A 5 -ANT , I. """ 1*- FAXE , E. &mond ad ititaiies Baal, as l'araplie Skeet - ACJX-1t 11.18:4%-iC RESEBanking House of Post, Cooper. * co. T DRINKER, NOSTROSE, 3 . II RUNITING COOPER. N b er 12, 1 55„. 1 4AC L. Pon.. Duirra - I,:ew York city and PhiladelphiSL— : Collections-pv=o4 Wade and remitted. °Mee hours frogs 10 a. 31. to 3. 1 . Messrs. Allen A Paxton, N. York.I4EFERENCE, Una Merton', EA., PhD's. • Ram WillisM Jessup; Madame. . News Offi.ce!. vEw yORECITT ILLITSTRATEG NEWSP4- rum MAGAZINES, itr-, tor isr m a=st. " 401 mM Slam , . . . . ~.. . : t. + . , . , , I- - . . , .• .. . . . . . 1 ... . . . 1! _ .. .._....... ~. . . , . . . tl . ..: : .11 y .t it. . _ .. -.. . . ill t • . . . ' . • . . . . . - . . J. . t... - . . VOL. 5. 1 .P . 6r the Independent Rrpeddican JENNIE LEE. BY 111,1.,AFT0;•C ksove ye - where the lilies; gleam • flrightly through the grasses tall : Where the tender ivies clasp Lovingly the-lichen wall Where the ecrtl, loa+sizthing Hinds Kies the pansies into'bloon: ; And the retblipped-clover fißh An the air frith sweet perfume ; Where the rose her crimson robes Gather:4 round her golden heart; And the blushing, pouting buds From their cairald thraldom stair ? There I trotK , tl My Jennie Lee, In the balmy summer hours Tamaly watched her happy smile, As I culled her choicest timers. Angers smiles sent down to earth Wreathed around her rosy mouth, each shiningtress On the breezes of the Scuith. ii hen eon 15thbling fountains All , thejo,Fous blais to rest— Tenderly were downywing,"N ss Folded, in each leafy nest— Meekly sunk my Jennie Lee, Like a Weary dove, to rest; And her cheek grew pale and cola, Tressed against my heaving breast Softly weep the willatti: nbir; • O'Cr my gentle Jennie., Led; And a-glaneing mathle,s hite Meeks the bluer tenis I shed THE GRIICOF FAMILY. FEMMES] Ir an antiquary were to amuse himself' hunting up all the queer families in the king-, dom, and then pick out from each the queer est 117etilb:q*, :111:1 SCI inaliC up a new family, queetest -61 the rittret, be iVoitld at the end hai-e . ptten together pretty much such st bunch of odd creatures as sat together on a certain October night. A latnp - of oldest ma chinery (ante moderator, ante argand even.) and of dullest oil, burnt ia:?.ily on a spintlit• legged -table beside a tall old man.• Ile haP the fee, so to speak, of that illumination all to himself for nth:Bever businesim he was about; so th'it it wit much presented the notion of a light in a citiv s , and the biber fig ures, who were all held fast in the shadows, might-bare been smugglers dividinr , their booty, or trten9.s sislerp; i_, - ,r any . Other Other tle• nomination hi the world. Brigands cr.': ettlag glers, Mere was present there a' bar'shrous crew enough, rode up of these.human items. Torn, primogenitus, and unlicked beyond all crctitnite ; flill, cadet ; and rather more unlicked, if xlit,4l Wete pb'ssl'olc—ivitith et.' hauSted.rho Male line: There '-;.:ifs ,thenS•tice primogenita in ,her sex, rough•stliiedT ittal raw armed; rude in dress, uncombed'in hair, with high cheek hones; She might have gone ctut, a,charitcor - 1-cooking,byz•thei day, or as• ' aid to the:scullion, and been accepted as such without detnor or stnallest' astoniihment.— That was tide.: iter i - ies gat, her sister ;.a a gawk, long th body, reaching neatl,t to her father's' head ; - always in her• Own way, in everybody's War. -, Sal etauldtnot so much as , stretch forth h'er tiriii, Without hitting or l knocking soinething down: When, there was ' the imp or Puck of the family, baptismallit known as-Hannah Maria, but familiarly (and without: any disrespect in the world)-- hailed as Froggy. She was _a dwarf; virtually, hut i without deformity. She leant over• to the he-side,„haviug a hoarse, gruff voice, that made you start. She did nothing from mourning till night, not a hand's turp for any one, save wagging of her tongue in the coars est way = -- being a good one at abuse, and hit ting on stinging names. ,There was alsoden, the gentle, keeping to . her old father like wax. There was the ob-Freueh poodle, joint pet of old Gringe and Jen. There was the Afri can hound, pet of Tom; Gill, and the Imp. -The, whole crew, men, women, Juid dogs, were kertnelled together. in the huge sitting room. - But, a word--Ljust one word—for Tom. Tom was the great Uncouth member of,the Gringe family. In the Irish tongue he was gaunt; which syllable-stands fur Mouth projected foolishly ; for cerebral conforms thin on the lines - 4 the late Messieurs Burke and Hare; for inarticulate minimal noises in lieu 'of ordinary sounds of assent or dis sent; fur horse-laughter, mild and on draught, . 0 1ways ready : for he was Of the stables, sta bly, baying been suckled. weaned, and -rear- ed on those premises. Grooms had been his dons, and he was senior wrangler of the great equine university. Ostlery was, his classia world • his Olympian Jove mat aloft on ,the coach•l;ox. -. In short, the Gringe family bad no manners, no breeding, no schooling, no eateclnsm. - They were all in a sort of mourn ing for their mother, who was (hinges bee: and wife. Excepting little Jen, !bey were, .1 1 in fact, none of hi ; being . brought into the family witliber. . However, he accepted them j without coiliplai t; and in 'his house they grew mtd fattene . •Slie, good soul, bad Veen of easygoing nat re, and of Jumper persua sion; having su rnatuml Jumper lights— the waiting. for which consumed most of her time, Sri, havidg brought them up, as she fancied,, in strict Jumper principles, 'she -had turned Deer on her side . one morning, and died with great decency under the hands, of the Reverend Joshua Ma s eSiirbriar,Jamping high priest,• not, hOwever; before. she had bound up herharum•searum'offspring to rev. erence, respect, and care for the father %she left' to them. Eor, in all their._ roughness they had a soft corner and a sort of rude. at tachment to this mother. Nay; Gill, the savage, was • obServed shedding •big tears about the size of hailstones. - Tall old Gringe therifore fared welt among them. .. CHAPTEG II Tom sits on She floor in sweet fellowship with the hound, busy cutting up a stick, or rather club.. He is-all in the dust and dirt of the corner. Gill, who' is the savage, is buly walking up sad down,-his hands in his pockets; whistling; making kicks at fanciful footballs, and rasping his great hobnails on the &ore. •It has extraordinary chorms for hini,ihat fanciful football play. Jen•is on a stool at old Gringo's feet; - the old. French poodle bring in that region too. Sal _site at the Ore, her long legs well out before ter, restirg on the bob. Sister Sue asleep; with bet head on her,red elbOws,, as though she were jual,,come of char,and had had a hard day of it. . The Imp is in the middle, wide awake indeed; ittopping ou one, %,, and chat tering eternally with that; boy's: tongue of hers. Her eyes are shooting busily . ; to *H eide% aeeking someilbg to ,be And her two arta are akimbo: Wbtaides'itete fire 4 ".G REEDO amb RCIONIF annamtv @lia-WERY n,mcl wPoma.9' MONTROSE, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1859. lof standing with arms akimbo, she sets off on aprogress of mischief. For she is highly !ingenious in the discovery of subtle and an nnying tricks. This was her evening's diver , , sion (his or hers to doubtfid - stringer) all the " year round ; no lack of piquancy in it fpr, ! being so oft repeated. Thus, to take tias , I very Ocinber night aS a sample: fiememlkr that Sue is sleeping stertorously after that . • figurative charing, and that long Sally is sur i veying her unnatural ; feet with a dreamy stu ff The - Imp—furnished with a wisp l stout brown pa!ler, wide& she ignites ginger. ly'—hops titer on tiptoe to where Sue is nod : ding iriyer the fire. As comes natural to stout brown papsr, no ItAme results; kit ptodlgions dothis of smoke. Then, turning with withik, into the likeness of Puck, she ; holds it _knowingly under the nose of omit'. rseious Sue, who snorts uneasily, and goes through all manner of diverting convulsions ; ! but. in the end is waked•np, rally on the hare verge of suffocation. Such gaspings nnd i clutchings for -breath Were never seen : Puck, all the while, shrieking with laughter. But otir that-gift. when somewhat brought round. fetches up a huge coal . rind launches It furi ousl) to; he dodged, however, by shrieking Puck. It lights on Gill the savage, who 1 starts with a grow I, and swears. Another shriek from our Puck. But Sue—just now all hut asphyxiated—is not to he bantkedi; and, jitinping from the chair with her, big arms ktoared, offers to fight the Imp, nr any 0-1 alerts Which, as before said, was very ; much the trngi-ettnietly of every night of the long, year, as well AS.of this special Friday night. All this while Old Gringo had been sitting thoughtfully back in his high "chair, rega:Aing their antics Wearily, with his hands some times on the head of little Jen, with his eyes at times fixed to the ceiling 'with a story, stare; nt times Teeing round the room like. I horses, neck atid neclt.. Now a sigh; now a .groan, no*, l clasping of the thin fingers to gether. There must have been some deep anguish and distress of mind at the bottom! I of all this,- (it may be as well hinted at once, it was - something penitential,) the whole lays ! tory of which lay in!the (net that this nip,ht was/a Friday night, and that the month was i the Ulalume month or October. Like enough there hai been a wrong 'done of an old tfctole...r.riontia, However that might be, after a long spell of 'such weary throes, he turned- to little Jen and said softly, " lend me your tirm, child, while I go up to my net end so leaning on her, who was as his ! *tick always, he passed out of the foam, -and I was presently . unlocking that notable buhl I cabinet of his. "rather * " says little. Jen knowingly, icon ;','ant to fetch dorm the big writing.hook ` "1 4o', he_ansa - cted, "and tonight above all nights in the scar. 0, if I could but write-my soul clean and elev . ! Jen thought ho Must have done that long since, if writing could do it; for every night of their lives, the big book ca.mc down. It was drawn fbrth from a little safe inside the cabinet, which bad a - spring and a click, and a shnottng bolt ;- and that hale safe I was inside again a a little cupboard; so there was positively no getting at the big book. Little Jen wondered what ho wrote in it; but never asked. So he came down ; with the racket raging high about him, t began to write. No on therefore heard t those short groans and weary heark.soresighs tharcame from him as he warmed to his writing work. It was indeed likely enough that Mr. Gringe had somewhere among Ins chattels that ugly thing known as a closet rskeletom •It was rather a great swollen hu man body, all purple and blue , with decom position,such as the curious may see every, dav through the glass windows of the Morgue. This horrid visitor used to come forth every night and walk up close behind him, and nex tA' go until nearly .morning. An importm nate; insolent, horrid visitor—never to he denied,seemingly—more importunate on this I October night than any other in the year. ! • 4 . Regittftion, restitution!" he whispered j to himself, his pen writing the words he whis pered, "which has been sounding ding dung nt my . ears for'so long back : it is - the only cure, the only salvation. Better workhouse than such a hell of thought Here the universal racket struck in, and general -outburst. The. Imp haring prhily fixed a needle upright in a chair where sh, knew T m would sil down. Sbe 14).4 a good bunch of her hair by the transaction. " litre another s year.come about now," he wrote on. "A year more of wretched thought and contlct, and not one step nearer to a resolve. Riches never brought with them so complete a Nemesis ! It must end. Restitutiori,it must tier With that he took lorth a great foolscap sheet, and began to write something !leaded, "1, John Grmge, being of sound mind and body," &e.,die.,and worked down steadily to the foot, when it would. hare been a very perfect instrumenelndeed, but fur the absence of the signature. and- the two attesting wit nesses. But the poOr brain-tossed man had written a whole century of such instruments, yet not one of them was ever executed. Fur there were other influences tugging at Ern, making the second party to the conflict.— "Then these poor witless wretches' must go out and 'oeg, or starve and die. Restitution or starvation ! Starvation or restitution-S—which, which? And all my doing!" Here he-cov ered up laisface; and; swinging his long up per person to and fro, groaned and groaned • agaitt. Perhaps- it was this that prevented his ing heed of a letter that little Jen had been. mainly putthing into bls hands for the lastfew seconds. The pcstman bad just broughtone, lie opened - it, and began to read mechanical. lyi but was presently trembling all aver with excitement., .Yet he merely said, in a low voice, "It wants but . this---it wanted but.this!" and read it through some half-a dozen time,a., The letter was on .soiled pa per; was dated from the mean house•of- call in t he city, and was very short . --.-so abort that it may be given bore:" DEJA Mu. Gunton: - -You have never Been me—very` likely *miter beard of me. I am the daughteiYof -your brother, Will Gringe. who, as you may remember, went out quite destitute to the Geoid- Fields, with his family, and died there of starvation. My husband, who' ent after them, is dead some two months since, of II fever.' lam left with nl ; child; and without a tartbittgin the world. .11eliiImi you tun, Your niece, • ' ' • - -=•• 11AT Comp too, 'Tams Tcxs lug.. CO APTER 111. 'Stich a night as that budget brought to him ! Old Cringe tossed and wrestled, and ; sobbed over his dead brother and saying that it was all his work,- and seemed ! likely to pi mnd. No one heard those ray. ings though, for his room was fast barred. Next clay he had gotten on deeper mourn ing and had. sent to the Three Tuns house-of eat!. fi,r Mistress Comm. She came in a trice, and tills standing be ' fore hirn„' demurely. with heri little girl of some six years old: A • tall,• sharp, Meek ' eyed, reflective girl (tor, she was no more than a girt) of very few word, but prodi. I . gious observation. .She took theni all in— In here:traill first glance—and was digesting the fruits of that ob-ervation all ;the time af. ter. Old Gringe, who at first has covered 'up his face, thinking he sees his defunct broth. Cr, trembling bids her he of gc;oil cheer, for %he shall not want for anything while , he lives. (no, nor after, he adds to himselt.)- 1 She shall come, he tells her, and live with ! them—she and her child ..,=to which she an-, shortly, that Uncle Gringo is very good to her, and that she will toy and be as ' useful as she can. The family gather round and survey her cu riously ; mech . & the Otaheibm folk did Cap tain Cook and his men. Nay, Tom the (mum approaches, and. with a stupid reverence. lays his hand upon her sleeve, making as tho' he would worship like the poor savages.— But she at once, and without more afro, had taken off her bonnet, and was busy setting, things to rights which she pronounced to. be in confusion. Before the end of the , day she was about as much at hoMe as though she had been there a whole twelve-month—nay, had taken NI a quiet tone of influence and authority over the wild crew, which they fell under at once unresistingly. - " You are as bad as Ebisjesmen, d.nrs," she said, positively calling them dears ; " you are really too old' for these child's tricks ! Only cottAder, Tom, a great strong man like you, ought to be working and helping your fami ly !" . " Dig the fields, eh ? ploW, eh ?" Tom asked with a wise look. '"Ecod, I'll think of it. .l Gill the savage stopped his kicking all at mice, and the Imp's ocietipation seemed to be gone. It was only little Jen who stood away from her, looking at :her distrustfully and keeping close under the shadow of Old Fath er amp. Mrs. Coram knew it well, too. Having said to herself,as she resurveyed them all round. "This is to be the - only retell"— For elf that, she Was dear 'Jeri ; good little Jen, and what not Before the week wra eat old Gringe pro tested that Mary Coram was the -greatest comfort in life to him, and she Jiad wrought the entnpleMst reform in the lios'e economy. No riots et night now. She was teachin ,, the Oriel Woint-ti f s work, and the men useful things. A great want' Was Comm ; but =he had eves always open, end' theta was one little matter that exceedingly mystified her., • "Tom, - dear,"- , she said, one day, when Gringe was rooting-up stairs among the lum ber "Tom, dear, papa seems to take a deal of ttoubies about his accounts every night !" "They're not account.," say; Tom,— "they're his life and adventures. My eve! they must be, full of dogrand horse-racing ; don't un think so`?" And, 'tom, dear," she went on, "has he always those fits going to bed of nights?" "Aye," said Tom, "whist, Cousin Comm, don't tell now on me; but, d'ye know, I think Governor is feared of being hung ! So does Gill and Sue. Like enough he's got a body on his mind, aye-7" And he walked away mysteriously on tiptoe. "!Tom, has really, for a fool," she said to herself, " wonderful powers of observation." -" lie must keep it under his pillow," she said (it was about this time, a good hour past midnight ; and Snorer's Oratorio was 'being, performed noisily ; she standing with a.diuk lantern at Old Gringe's bed-side,)• "he !Inlet keep it under his pillow," she said reflecting. Nor was she out ; for, -putting her hand softly, it rubbed against the key and brought it amt. A ancient, quaintly Shaped ley —the key of the held cabinet. She went over softly, and fitted it hr carefully: Tho' g a ve a s h o rt shriek itt turning, and Old tj r i nge moved uneasily in ins bed, it-slid not -tay her; for she kr ew old inol slept 11E110: Then,there were the inside safes, and he shoot nig bolts, and there, at last, '*was the writing-book s with its key beside it. -Mov. ing the dark lantern lull in its - pages,she be gun to read hastily, up and down.. Very cu rious revelations they were ; giving her, as it seemed, extraordinary satisfaction. It was he same story written over 'and over again (•ay five or six hundred times) With unmean ing tautology, begun and written out afresh nearly every` night ; for this sort of Confes sioual, practice gave the writer relief and cum: fort May Heaven in its infinite mercy forgive me," headed nearly every page. Forgive him what? A single, but _heinous, transgres, sion. ITere it•is in a sentence: His starved brother had been the eldest brother, and their father'S pet, and, by ingenious Sophistry, pro digiims lying, with terrible calumny, he had gotten that father to cut off the eldest with one shilling ; to drive him from. thadoor with a paternal curse, and to brand him publiely. The petir outcast-had gone forth to struggle, and,htyl, day by day, sunk lower and lower, until 'it was ended by starvation and, death. As she read the same story told over and over again, her face was contorted with fury and something like grief; not fora taw seconds did she perceive that•tbere was atiother per. son standing beiide her, looking _also at the book. No other than little :Jen. She was caught in the-fact. ' " You spy !" said Cortun in a rage, "go to bed !" " I shall tell father in the. morning," little Jen answered, Comm laughed under her breath. " You had better;" she said.. " I know a secret of his. Take care, my girl, don't play tricks with an old. man. 'You might put him but of the world." And little Jen theuwent of to bed, cowed for the time. . . , ... toroth's plot, front that night fdrth, was wonderfully ingenious. Old Gringo, who had done merder in her eyes, was fraudulent ly in possession , of her money= and her child's. 'The feeble old: wretch should be brought to make what atonement was left to him ; -which indeed he was struggling every night to de., . . Here was her: tacticre, or atleakt a hint of it i for hits vironbt it out kr a' tioniag subtle and complex ways ; never losing sight , I of her aim for an instant. One of those lonely Oetobei • nights when all, save the two, were gone to bed, she was sitting beside him, close under the dull influ ence of the lamp, harping on the one theme, till long past midnight. Abundant tears from liar as she :old, so naturally and•so mi nutely, the sad history of her father's slow Accedence; of his weary progress downward into the poor man ' s slow!). Painfully she ',dwelt on his wrestlings, his spasmodic sun: gle and poor shifts; his .graspings for life and substance, up to that final collapse and miser able'ending in a lonely place and strange ,country. Not is throb, not a pang was pass ed over by her, bending over to the dull flame. It was all told in a low, mysterious voice, while Old Gringo, with sharp face, bent - forward to the lamp also, and, his thin fingers clutched together, hearkened and breathed hard. Thus she would send him 'ip to bed, reeling and totte'ring,,at something ast one o'clock. . . You may be sure that the mottled Moe. Sue's man had a bravo night of it. While he, the , torturers; would smile to herself, as. she stood alone when he was gone. and say, that it would do. Indeed, it promised fairly_ enough,: for those being of sound mind and body. , Papers came thick and fast, one be ing drain out nearly every day. ' But al. iays incomplete ; 'without signature, without iittestation. She knew well of all these rtitimed and halting instruments, and stamp-, e l impatiently in her chamber. But She held O' fits; to her torture, working' it remorse-- Ist'lv, Dearest ingenioualy. • . " untie," she said, "there is some it .s Mysteo ryover the business. Poor fitther of -101 said that wicked people had got between hlm and his father, and poisoned his 'ears against his son. I think so, too. But who?" "Who, indeed T' said Gringe, trembling, . ' Coram-(in a low, subdued voice)-" They %ter° murderers, uncle—real murderers.-,- There is blood on their hands at this inn nient. Don't you think so, uncle?"' (No attswer 4 ) "'I heir wretched souls are haunt ed with remorse, and, in another world, they will have murderers' pay ! Don't you think sql, uncle r (This treatment certainly ought to. do : but noticed, with une:vinesr, that little Jen, o had been always held to be 'silent as a Urch mouse, had begun to.talk with-him at n r , ,, th, and in private; and that he seemed . be srothcsi by her talk. Little Jen, too, looking at Corarn defiantly, almost ever Uce that night or distevery. Perhaps, if le held the poison,little Jen had the anti e. Likely enough ; fbr she once - over rdaJ little en.say something to this eflect Father, you have something on your 1-id. Tell your own little Jen? Or don't a a word of it." And she would un good as any preaCher—what comfort. i iii greatest sinners, lay in certain good MCI MEE • 4amlred.little Jen ; but still her poi son was better than little Jen's antidote, and :worked nil this 'while it ti as getting on to the Kist day of October, Here was unother bit of her tactique, which she plied sitoultan ' cow:ly : " she•says,' " I thought you loved horses and riding ?" "So I db," says Gill, rapping out an oath . . " Than Irby don't you ride ?" 1 because the old man won't keep rsC for 'um" slie answers, "all young men of 11- age have horses - and ride." II e they now ?" says Gill. "So they I believe." 1 'our father should let you-have a horse; don't cost him mach in other things," Ithing 'him ' he shall," says-Gill, " k to . un to-morrow." Tom," she says, at another time, " how pockef-money does your father give fun .11 !ME you•, ‘ll ,pea, ,e, I= ig2 "Not a copper," Tom says, opening his eyes, l wide. And thus she worked ‘ on Sue and Sal ; Ain W, I l iefore not many days, they had till, as it here, struck f,r wages, and had given the old Man a bit of their mind. He met them surii i iy, and told them to get about their bu , ;- Mesii. Nearly open 1..0t was the consequence. Gill Was a reguldr savage now. r,,, 1.. t tle Jen that same evening came up to her rivily,'and with courage. ! " 'twin coram," she said, "You _are a 4 woman. It is you vaio are setting all against father. Bun proMise you tell him all about the book, and that and_ what a hypocrite you are. 1 know . game.' lah l" was the only :reply she got. therni night truth was, Coram knew Elitj durstn't - 1; fur they were pow approaching very i t a the thirty-first of Oetobey—a date Th speak ` last t writs: wus n down very often in the book : and it l oted how Gringo was gettipg hourly excited and more miserable. She, too, 'ad of that date, and was looking out approach. The conflict within him MOM had r fur i dto rage terribly : and outside, the in 3tontsts gave no peace. With angry 1 4 and menaces they assailed; gatliering him at all hours. 111 seem surre gruwri ruun4 al "Give 'en horse l" "Money I" they shout ed at him, until he grew furious at last, and shoolOis poor, impotent fist at them, and all but, etirsed them. Exeentioner Comm—vigilant torturess- - never slackened aninstant. in her insidious work and, as little Jen stood in her way full asl mueb as the others, she very gingerly put a poke in her wheel also: Something in this way it was : Old Gringe, raging and tearing over his book, shedding miserable tears', end vowing there is no salvation for him h#a and hereafter; that evil genius ex , - horts *him to spiritual comfort at the minis. tration-ray'of the fleierend lash Mac Scar. briar, 4 even at her hands. Why not -tell t her th secret of the book, as well as to little Jen 1 Note how cleverly this is rut._ The old ma wakens from his dreams. 41," Mt tow. ---- "Je ," Mt says ' angrily, "knows nothing of this' book !, o;.•does she I" For be had_ ri.,, noted, ith angry suspicion , how bis key had plain arks of being disturbed from, under his pill w, and his book was not in.the mia spot it t i l :iis cabinet.. . With, trembling eager. nest, puts Oonira to, the question, and ex• tiacts. rem he reluctant said, that' she had indeed leurpriied little Jen one night fiddling at his 4abinet.l Butstriet seerisy as to i this. revelat on was enjoined. Heuceforth dis. trust a Emil glance spoor Jett- But, by that tl e, it had finally come to be the rd mond% of ths thirtieth of October * eve of that Urgiciii thirV•o44 • :{ NO. 4. CHAPTER II A gray, cold; shivering day, with keen,Ya zor-cdged blasts MI abroad—dark, sunless, and dispiriting. The crew, who were, as it were, on strike, prowled sullenly in corners, as if they too felt its influence: Old Gringe .was not seen at all ; but kept' hithself close in strict retreat in his own "Chamber. He must have written prodigiously ; for every time that coritm's ear was laid to the key; hole it beard the feeble scrapings of a pen over paper. , it, grew darkee., colder; and more misera ble, until it eame l to 5 o'clock, when the Rev erend Josh Mac Scarbriar—sent for at Gring. e's own request—arritied. and was shown to Gringe's own chamber. That swaddling di. tine ranted and rayed, and shrieked .eternal torments at him, fin- a good two litmus; un til, indeed, froth gathered ()a the man's mouth and his eyehalla protruded. • He these Runt his way. Fin Tilly, about 7 o'cloch,.-the old man him. self came tottering down; candle in hand. looking like a true ghost; quite ghastly. and all shrunken away since morning. The skin was tightened, drumlike, over his face, and_ he was bent down like a tall tree in a gale. -The day, and the' Reverend Josh Mac Scar. briar, conjointly, had 'done their work. What *was to be.tho end of it all? • But, when that spectral:figure carne totter ing, in ieebly, the candle dancing up and'down in his fingers, looking just as though he had come from his family vault., instead of his room, he found complete Pandemonium rife. Then came Babel noise and confusion; and a. ring formed in the centre of the room, with' cries of " Well dime! At him boy !" and othi•r encouragement. In short, there was a dog•fight going _on between the- poor old French poodle ,and the bound, being set against one anothen by the crew ; not being: got to fight, it must lie owned, without diffi culty. Just as the, old. man entered, .the sport Might he said to be over; for . the old poodle had toppled over on his head- and 'was kicking out his-lean hind Paws in extremity of death, the hound baying made his fa meet in his throat. A very easy - victory it was. Somewhat sobered, the crew looked round, and were quite scared at seeing this ghostly old man shaking his shrivelled . arm at then; invoking speechless. punishment: on their heads, and . then tottering away "as he came. They heard him call feebly fur !Ce ram Who came to hint: • "Tell Scrivendish and bk.clerk," ho siaid, ".to be here the first thing in the irsornir:g." - ' Joyfully and sweetly she laid herself down to rest that night, for she knew now • thrit ev erything mould be signed, sealed, an& deliv: ered with perfect regularity in the baointitg. True, little Jen had come to her, and -told her that she now 'saw what her wicked plot was; that she, Comm, was killing her poor father by inches, with what end she knew perfeetly and that, aurely- as the sun rose, she wonk go to him and expose to him the whole 'plot. " Bah !" said Coram, with a loud laugh. The morning - of this anniverSary—the 31st of October—was now come, and Scrivendish and clerk wee waiting below in the gloomy chamber. They were shivering ; 'blue with cold. They were bidden .to be in waiting at eight o'clock punctually, and there they were at eight o'clock with writing n-aerials all ready. Coram came down with secret glee. " You are to-go. up stairs,- gentte,men ; I hear Mr. Gringo stirring in his room. Please to walk Up," Old .Gringe, with Lice sharpened 'from overnight into hatchet shape, peered out at i them from the halfopened door. , • " Who are there?" he said, in a pryingin. quisitive way. "0 ! I know now. Walk in. Be seated. Everything is very corn fortable,'as you see." They walked in, and got out their papers. "Glad to see you looking so well," beriv endiAh said, not regarding much the truth of his speech. " We had a death in the lionse last night-, Sir," Gringo went or: ; "an - old poodle dog, Sir. "Avery sad thing. He is to be • inter red, tomorrow with every respect." Scrivendish looked "at his clerk. • " You wished your will, sir, -to be drawn?". "So 1 did," raid Gringe; " .Ire you ready'?" "Quite," said the other. "Just wait a second," said Gringe, "going over to the bed ; " mast do these things in the regular way—according 'to laW." And he put on "a- paper cocked hat, and took a walking stick solemnlyinto his hand;• and sat down before them with cheeks putrect out and ridiculous dignity. Fe was mad. • (ALA-Link % The game was up for Coram, just as she was winnirg„ too; which was the more .pro. yoking. In a comfortable and select estab lishment for lunatics Old Gringer sojourned fur the remainder of his days, having at last to be measured fur a straight waistcoat, he . gave 'so much trouble. In this, uneasy gar went ho one day raved out of " he world, with all his sins upon_ his bead, leaving not so muck as a ghost of a will behind bin'. So little Jen got all.. - Add, if any care to know what she did with it, we can tell them that she did no forget those two wild stepsisters, Sue and Sal; nor would she have forgotten Tom and Gill, only . they had gone to the dogslong before. She even offered a share of lief' vealth to . wicked Coram, who actually Went out as a governess in respectable' fami lies where there were widowerfathers. igr REMUS/trips (snys Bishop Hall) is intended td the mind as whetting is •to the' scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which nth._ erwise would grow -dull and blunt. lie, therefore, that spendstis whole time in rec reation is ever whetting. never mowing—his grass may grow and his steed nlay starve; as, contrarily, he that always toils and never recreates, is ever mowing, never Whetting— laboring much to little purpose. NEWPAPER BORROWEIti.—Hear how edit of talk to borrowing. individuals "Got a paper to spare V "Nfr, sir, hero's one of oar: last . Would you like to subseriboolir, and take regu larly ?" " I would, but rnt too poor." That man just carne from the circus—cost 50 cents ; lost time on his farm N5O cents , liquor, juclging froin • the smell 50 cents; making $1,50 iustually thrOWn away,and. then begginglor, a paper, alleging that he was too poor to pay fur it. • Thai. is what we call saving at the spigot sad Wog A& tbeluilitto* !!NIM NIXIILATAT 07 los. the following ihetek.."6; -car th American cliess-player. lite* - 10 . 161,), to the kindness of oite WO* lio/ P i intimate friends, '. 4 - I Paul Morphy is a natiie..of, the, city, New Qrleans,,and was eiluestad Hill cottage,, near Mobile; •Alatial • father was born in Charleston, South': na, of Spanish parents, and became oiler ' the most eminent Judges of dui , Supre. Court of the State of Louisiana. - United a French Creole lady ot the latter State, t 7 subject of our sketch was born on the 22d; June, 18.37, and, at the early age 0 • years, learned the moves of chess from • father, at his'own earnest solicitation. •t; T. family of•Morphy has long been known the South and West of the Republic for eminence of its members in the mysteries . Caissa : and foremost among them stood uncle of orero, Mr. Ernest Morphy. gentleman sof equal strength with M Rousseau, New Orleans, who has,- 1. many years, been a frequent visitor at leading clubs of London and the continen t and whose presence we are again happy welcome in Europe. At a very early agl. young Paul hid played some hundred gam .1 with . his uncle, and about half as many wi Mr. Rousseau; almost all.the games tower• the last being won by their youthful oppo,l ent. While still a mere boy, : he played thi ty games with Mr. James McConnell, wi ning all but one and on the 22d and 2.5 th . May, 1850, (not yet thirteen years of age,i •he encountered the celebrated Sungari Herr Lowenthal, the result being in nom -. measure, no doubt, owing to Mr. L's unde r rating his young antagonist—Morpby, 2;-r Lowenthal, 0 ; drawn, 1. It is not unfair suppose that the desire to wipe out this d feat had something to do -With Herr- Lowen that's challenging his'youthful victor in th match now pending. - For several years past, Mr. Morphy' ha only playedzwith amateurs, to whom hegav tke 4 rook or knight—odds in which, from hi brilliant style of play, probably no one' liv ing can surpass him. But the meeting of t first congress of American chess players, las year, in New York, offered a field foe th display of his extraordinarypowers, and-hi visit to the Empire City,was hailed with sat infection by nearly all the leading athletes i the States. . Comparatively little is known i England of tie strength of American play ers. At the time of the congress, the Ne York club contained such men as -Mead an Thompson, gentlemen well known at th Cafe de Regence, and who received ohl small odds from Kierzeritzky, and players o equal grade. Lichtenheim, a trifle sponger 'bad been president of the Konigsbnrg club in 'Germany ; and Charles H. Stanley is h. • new Jame to Englishmen. In other cities o the Union were amateurs of equal force ; 'such, for instance, as Montgomery,. of Phila . ; delphiai and Paulsen, then unknown to fanie. Could Our readers eYamine snore of the games played by the above gentlemen, they would have a high opinion of the knowledge, of the " king of games" in the great Repub lic. Hon. A. B. Meek, Judge of Probate in the State of Alabama, and one of the leading jurists and orators in America, was the . first "to give the New York club an idea' of Paul Murphy's powers. When be informed the members that the youthful Louisianian wo'd. certainly carry off:the . prize in the tourna ment, he incurred a good deal of bantering;, one gentleman answering, " Because be beets "you, Judge, you thick he must necessarily' beat everybody else ;" a-reply which, how ever brilliant, proved - unsound. Mr. Paulsen . also gave it as his decided opinio,-previous ly to Mr. Morphy's arrival, that he would vanquish all competitors; and he freqUently expre.ss'ed his belief, during the congreastirat, should Murphy visit-Europe, he would prove his superiority over every living prayer. • Mr. Paulsen's_ adini ration for the young Louisianian was so great that, whenever the latter was engaged 'in a gaine, he could not be lured from watching him. But it is not merely over The board that Paul Murphy exerts his powers. As c..blindfold player, no one ever Wore succeeded in conducting sev en games with the excepuon of * Paulsen,imil be has frequently stated in New 'York that he felt satisfied Murphy could play as. many games as himself. The latter is con.iiderably -tronger,blindfolded than Paulsen, and some of his battles are surprising examples of brilliant strategy. Mr. Murphy is about five feetthree inch le s,_ and his slenderne.ss of figure is such as to give him a , remarkably youthful appearance. —London Field. The Beginning of the World. TETE fOirt)Wing is an extract from a sermon Spurgeon, the Engly,h preacher, and is a specimen of . the eloquence which within a year or tWo, has made his name familiar in both hemisfiherea: Can any man tell me when thg 'beginning wasl Years ago we thought the beginning t of - this vrorl -was when Adam came upon it;. but we have discovered discovered that thousands of rears before hat God was forming chaotic matter to make it a fit abode tor - man, and potting races of creatures Upon it, that they might die and leave traces of his handiwork' tuld marvelous skill, before he tried his hand , on man. But this was not the beginning, for revelations point us to a period long ere this world was fashioned, to the days when the morning stars were begotten—when, like drops of water from the fingers of morning, stars and' constellations fell thickly from the hand pf God ; when, by his own lips,. be . launched forth ponderous orbs; when." with his own hand,,he sent comets, like thunder. „ bolt', wandering through the sky, totnitone day-their proper sphere. We go back to those days when worlds Were, made and sys- tem& were fashioned, and we bays not even approached the beginning yet: , Until we , go back to the time Wien all the universe slept in the mind of God, as, ,yet • unborn, until we enter the eternity where - God, the o:eater, dwells alone, everything sleeping within him, all creation sleeping - in his niighty_gigantio thourkt, we have not guessed the beginning. We triarsgo• back,,.. back, back, ages upon ages. We i , ty go back, if we may use such words, whole eter nities, and yet never arrive at the beginning. Our Wing-might be tired, our imagination. die away. Could it outstrip the lightning's , flashes, majesty, power, and rapidity, it wo'd soon weary itself emit could get to the -be. ginning.. ,Bit God, from the twginning,chose his people;nben unnavigated ether was un= fanned by the wing of a single angel, when • space was Ai:witless or else' unborn, -when universal' ailencer.etgned; and not a voice or whisper shocked' the solemnity of silence, when.there was no beirig, no motion, naught . butGoilimself stone in his'eternity - ;,when, , witliout,the attendaneeef even a cherubim, - long era the living. creatures were born, or the wheels of the chariot -- of -Jehovah were ; fashioned; even - then, " in . the beginning was the Word," and in the beginning God's peo n pie were in the Word, tend in the beginning He chose thein all . unto eternallife. - . ' lady, expressing wish--in pees- once or her - son, so bny 'of. five years---that she hid something to read that she hisd - neve "read - Were; the boy- estlahned; "Take feu; filide;mosherr ' - - mall 104 will oialc !k. pest MINEI 1 II .1; II ! 25 of Ito-
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